Roark Bradford (324 results)

Condition: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Burchard, Peter (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting. Burchard, Peter (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Burchard, Peter (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Burchard, Peter (illustrator).

Condition: acceptable. Burchard, Peter (illustrator).

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. dampstain to bottom edge of boards, staining on endpapers from dust jacket. light edge wear; There were those who claimed the Green Roller never lived. But others knew better. They knew the Green Roller had preached up and down the swamp lands of Louisiana for a hundred years. And after that he went to glory.…

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. Poor dust jacket. (christmas plays, christmas ) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books. Burchard, Peter (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Novel. First edition stated, but after Harper and Brothers edition. Covers nice, corners and spine ends lightly bumped. Bookplate inside the front cover, interior clean and tight, pages tanned. Dust jacket rubbed and soiled, generally tanned. J. J. Lankes (illustrator). …

Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. No Dust Jacket In protective mylar cover. (Louisiana, Folklore) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Peter Burchard (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 118 Pages; 14 Sections; Pages Tight; Moderate Page Wear; No Markings; Slight Yellowing Of Page Edges; Red Hard Covers With Black Lettering On Spine; Severe Discoloration Areas On Spine And Portions Of Front And Back Covers. Moderate Shelf Wear; Dust Jacket Has Red Lettering And Illustration Of Angels, Trees; Church. Bibliography Of Author On Back Dj. Staining And Bleeding From Red Covers Evident On Dj. Several Full Page B/W Illustrations. Story Of Green Roller Who Preached Up And Down The Swamp Lands Of Louisiana. He Trained 12 Men To Take Up His Work. Book Contains 12 Sermons By These Men-Sermons About Daniel, Job, Noah, Moses, King Nebby-Ka-Neezer, And The President Of The Us--Sermons Of Poetry And Fire Out Of The Hearts Of People Who Have Made A Neighbor Of God. Content Headings Include: The Mystery; The Revelation; The Dying-Bed Maker; Sin; I Just Stand Here Laughing; You Better Mind; The Projecting Son; The Adam Bomb; Boils And Bildads Of Job; Daniel's Three-Way Gig; The Girdled Lines Ov Victory; The Tangled Land; The Eagle Stirs The Nest; Wasn't That A Grand Day/. Very Rare Vintage Copy. Peter Burchard (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Prior owners' names inked inside. Full patterned cloth binding with title label on spine. 225pp. Size: 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Lankes, J. J. (illustrator).

Stapled. Condition: Fair-Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The February 10, 1934 issue of Collier's The National Weekly. Fiction and articles include Ice Man, an article about skater Norval Baptie by Quentin Reynolds, The Sin Splitter, an ethnic themed short story by Roark Bradford, part 5 of 6 of Ziegfeld and His Follies, a series of articles by Eddie Cantor & David Freedman, part 9 of 12 of Marriage for Revenue, a novel by George Agnew Chamberlain, part 11 of 11 (conclusion) of Thunder in the Dust, a novel by Alan Le May that was adapted in the 1950s into the movie The Sundowners. and others. Cover art by Joseph Morgan. Condition issues include rippling, some damp stains and bleed due to moisture exposure. There are no cutouts or missing pages. A fair to good copy. Joseph Morgan (cover) (illustrator).…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. Lankes, J. J. (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition (Stated); blue decorative cl. w/paper spine label; owner's name; 226 clean, unmarked pages. J. J. Lankes Woodcuts (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Stated first edition . NOT an ex library book. Bookplate on front endpaper. 118 pages. Dust jacket haslight wear spine ends and corner. Price is not clipped.

Condition: GOOD. First edition. Tales of the legendary hero, John Henry, told in black dialect; scattered through the stories are lyrics from some of the many folk and blues songs honoring his exploits. Illustrated with woodcuts by J. J. Lankes. 225 pp plus colophon and 4 pp publisher's ads Good condition overall in blue cloth depicting gears in lighter blue, (gift inscription, bookplate, spine label peeling, sunning to spine). A tight copy, missing the dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very nice clean unmarked copy, attractive vintage bookplate on front pastedown. Dust jacket has an old tape repair across top of rear panel, light wear around edges. Peter Burchard (illustrator).

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. Lankes, J. J. (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. None. First Edition. Bookplate. Lovely Lankes color woodcuts. Binding is cloth.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Second Printing. No dust jacket. The blue and white patterned cloth boards are sunned around the edges and on spine, extremities lightly rubbed, spine label worn. Clean interior. Second printing October 1933. Novel of freed black people after the Civil War. All orders packed with care, most dust jackets protected by Brodart sleeve, independent bookseller since 2011.…

hardcover. Condition: Good. No dust jacket, blue cloth over boards, dark blue spine titles, name written on front free end paper, 264 pages, good binding.Brick and mortar bookshop since 1975.

Condition: New. pp. 220.

Condition: New.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. Reprint. Multiple chips and tears (some mended with tape) to jacket edges, front jacket flap price clipped. Boards lightly faded, ink stamp on front paste-down endpaper. 1928 Hard Cover. 246 pp. Drawings by A.B. Walker. Bradford's works of fiction and folklore were based on his childhood contacts with African-American preachers, musicians, and storytellers in his father's plantations. Ol' Man Adam An' His Chillun, is his first book and was collected from stories first published in the World. The stories were then adapted by Marc Connelly into the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Green Pastures. Bradford also wrote novels which depicted the plight of African-Americans from a historical perspective. …

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Ol' Man Adam An' His Chillun: Being the Tales They Tell About the Time When the Lord Walked the Earth Like a Natural Man. Book.

Condition: New. pp. 220.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Good to Very Good-. Vol. 20, No. 109. Cover art by Salter. Includes "Author in Search of a Character" by Phyllis Bentley; "And the Birds Still Sing" by Craig Rice; "The Inspector Had a Wife" by Charles B. Child; "The Jinx Man" by Stuart Palmer; "The Point of Honor" by Thomas Flanagan; "Man Who Voted for Ulysses S. Grant" by MacKinlay Kantor; "Going My Way?" by George Harmon Coxe; "A Matter of Timing" by Victor Canning; "Mrs. Oliphant Deceased" by Michael Gilbert; "The Sheriff Decides" by Roark Bradford; "Morte D'Alain" (First) by Maxey Brooke; "The Creative Impulse" by W. Somerset Maugham; "Detective Directory" by Robert P. Mills; "Index to Volume Twenty". A little soiling; edge and corner wear with dings, small tears and losses; mild tanning; musty. Book.…